Try pressing Alt-F9, to see if maybe you've managed to encompass the content in a field. If you have, the content will be encompassed by a pair of field braces (i.e. { }). In that case, cut all the content from between the field braces (don't select either field brace!), then delete them and paste the content back into the document.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]